Duck Son and Pinker closed abruptly today. I was an occasional customer for sheet music and CDs, although it was never my first choice for CDs and I sometimes found the staff didn’t know their way round the sheet music stock (though this hasn’t happened recently).<\/p>\n
There is another instrument shop in Bath, so we can still cope if the mouthpiece gets stuck in my son’s trumpet again. I realise that CD sales face stiff competition from the internet, but surely a place the size of Bath and with this city’s musical culture could support a sheet music shop? Or are sheet music sales subsidised in practice by sales of CDs? (And now I think of it, Manchester city centre lost one of its two sheet music shops in the mid-1990’s.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Duck Son and Pinker closed abruptly today. I was an occasional customer for sheet music and CDs, although it was never my first choice for CDs and I sometimes found the staff didn’t know their way round the sheet music … Continue reading